Today there is such pressure to be perfect in an instant. I know everyone feels it–we must know everything about everything to be worth anything. The feeling is self-imposed and reinforced by society at every turn, creating a cycle of unrealistic expectations no reasonable person can meet.
I always feel this pressure. My constant complaint about myself is that I’m not working hard enough, so I stress myself out thinking about how I can work harder in between work, grad school, and the rest of my life. So I felt especially lucky to run across three seemingly random items that all whispered “relax” in my ear.
First I randomly grabbed an old O-The Oprah Magazine from December 2007 and found myself reading the contributors pages, where I ran across a blurb about photographer Joshua Jordan. He became a full time photographer in 1992, and there he was, doing his first shoot for O Mag, a short 15 years later.
Then on Facebook, I read Peter Shankman’s status update that today was the 11th anniversary of him incorporating
